Thursday, August 14, 2008

8.14.1901The Ellis & Turner Company of Peoria, IL completes a 600-mile test run in their Duryea-inspired prototype 8.14.1921The first race held at the Cotati Speedway in Santa Rosa, CA, a 150-mile event, is won by Eddie Hearne in a Duesenberg-Distil8.14.1935The last new United States-built Rolls-Royce Phantom I is delivered to Mrs. M. S. Morrow of Whitestone, NY8.14.1952Stanwood W. Sparrow, Vice President of Engineering for the Studebaker Corporation, dies 8.14.1958Steam car historian John H. Bacon is killed at age 35 in an airplane crash over the North Atlantic Ocean